Word: comics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pithy, highly polished prose in a variety of genres, including travel writing, memoirs (A Cab at the Door, 1968), biographies, novels (Dead Man Leading, 1937) and numerous collections of literary criticism and short stories. He was a rare book reviewer who could also create memorable fiction. His stories, comic but sympathetic renderings of the antic aspirations of ordinary people, remained refreshingly old-fashioned and essentially timeless and enduring, given all the literary fads he lived through. Pritchett expressed his credo in the preface to his Collected Stories (1982): "I have always thought it the duty of writers to justify their...
...color film, more than one setting, scenes with actual extras in them. But he?s still a guy making two-shots of people talking about their troubles, working them through on the basis of faulty information and silly suppositions. Case in point: Holden McNeil (Ben Affleck). He draws underground comic books with his boyhood pal Banky (Jason Lee). Then he meets Alyssa (Joey Lauren Adams), also a comix artist, and falls into obsession. The problem is, she?s a lesbian. Well, nobody?s perfect. And, indeed, she?s not perfectly gay, for eventually she succumbs to Holden?s passion. This...
...color film, more than one setting, scenes with actual extras in them. But he?s still a guy making two-shots of people talking about their troubles, working them through on the basis of faulty information and silly suppositions. Case in point: Holden McNeil (Ben Affleck). He draws underground comic books with his boyhood pal Banky (Jason Lee). Then he meets Alyssa (Joey Lauren Adams), also a comix artist, and falls into obsession. The problem is, she?s a lesbian. Well, nobody?s perfect. And, indeed, she?s not perfectly gay, for eventually she succumbs to Holden?s passion. This...
Where French comic-making often truly shines, though, is in the realm of the ordinary--the strips about "everyday life." From a slightly slatternly, stay-at-home bourgeois family (Christian Binet's "Les Bidochon"), to a grumpy, jaded modern student (Claire Bretecher's adventures of "Agrippine"), to a wide-eyed, pompadoured, out-of-place teenage suburban rocker (Frank Mergerin's "Lucien"), Francophone strips manage to make the banal intriguing, a worthy topic...
...exhibit is rounded off by a small collection of posters from the International Festival of Angouleme, France's annual comic-strip exposition--usually attended by over a hundred thousand people in the course of its four-day run--and a much larger collection of comic albums and spin-off products from France and its cultural neighbors. The commercial products range from the predictable (watches, keychains, slippers) to the completely startling (massive commemorative etched-glass slabs, bottles of wine). Amusing as these are, the overall effect of the exhibit is somewhat disappointing, partly due to an evident lack of support...